Lateralization as a Possible Contribution of Gold Placings Formation

Twenty four years of observation have gradually suggested to the author that gold, in small quantities, but proportionately distributed through the ultra basic rocks, can be chemically dissolved and reprecipitated in possible concentrations of commercial placing for the normal process of lateralization.

The arrival of such permission has been accompanied by some uneasy reflections that go back to the year 1955, after a detailed study of a gold placing in French Guyana. In that time, people got to the conclusion that the only possible source of gold in placing was the deep and red lateritic ground which is cut by the canal of a stream. The fact that one part of the gold of the canal would have been precipitated from a state in solution was of particular interest.

If this leave is correct, it could give reason to some of the auriferous beds in the canals of Superior Tertiary, in the area of Mother Lode in California and in the western declivity of Sierra Nevada. What is more, this leave can explain the occurrence of extremely large and exceptionally fine pods that miners of its prime time had found and did not want to accept as a product of structures of erosion veins. It could also explain in part of the gold of disperse placing in the southwestern area of Oregon and of the abundance of gold in the canals and tributary of the Klamath and Trinity rivers of northwestern California, supposed the solidity of this premise, it is suggested that the key to exploration of deposits not discovered of great extension and low law, exploitable by methods of open stalls in many parts of the world.